On 09/22/2017 08:41 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:49:38AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I was just wondering whether it makes sense for GRUB to use MS-DOS partition >> on a Mac, thinking it may be better than Mac partition tables, I was >> basically just thinking aloud. If it's not necessary for GRUB to work >> properly, then we can stick with the current partition scheme, of course. > > Well it doesn't sound better, and would certainly be unfriendly do dual > booting with MacOS.
As I said, I was thinking aloud, that's all. >> FWIW, I made this change [1] to partman-partitioning now which will result >> to debian-installer using the same disk labels on ppc64 for the various >> sub-architectures as on powerpc. There are, of course, no 64-Bit OldWorld >> Macs, Cell CPUs and so on, but I guess my change is more elegant than >> duplicating >> the case statement for ppc64 and removing all the unsupported >> subarchitectures. > > I would have thought the firmware on the mac would insist on an apple > partition table to boot. And I already made the change above to use Mac partitions on Apple hardware. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
